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PALATE FOR POISON

Zygaena caterpillars, which deter hungry birds by secreting droplets of cyanide (circled), get the poison by eating poison-laced plants or, it turns out, can make it in-house. The plants and insects use identical recipes and machinery to make the poison, a new study reveals. Credit: N.B. Jensen et al/Nature Communications 2011

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